The (Radio) One Show

The BBC Red Button brilliant transfer deadline day programmes is just Radio 5 Live with webcam of the studio, for me it's far better as they tell it like it is and don't try and overexcite everything like Sky Sports News. They also use this for 5 Live Final Score when they have live commentary or an around the grounds type show but the build up and phone in afterwards is again the 5 Live Studio with webcam.

As some others said Chris Moyles used this a lot for special shows such as his birthday show, shows on tour, his final shows and his Marathon Show which got 2.84 million watching on the red button and is still the most popular Radio Red Button feature ever. Grimshaw and Radio 1 still use their website for interviews where they switch on the cameras so people can watch live and Radio 2 Sound of the 80s is made into a Red Button Show as was the first few series of Weekend Wogan which was from the Radio Theatre and was live on the Red Button and then edited highlights for the rest of the week.

At one time the deadline day stuff was done from the second TV sport studio for both TV and radio.

TV studios often sound awful on radio, so the alternative is better.

back in the mid 90's tfm aired their breakfast show via the local channel on ntl Teesside. First during the summer and then again before Christmas

Slightly different, but didn't Channel M show live feeds from traffic cameras with a local radio station as audio at breakfast?

On paper that's a useful service.

Yes, it was Real Radio (now Heart) which Channel M's parent company owned at the time.

They also tried to launch Channel M Radio, but decided at the last minute it wouldn't be financially viable.

Guardian went the other way and launched Rock Radio instead, it is now owned by Communicorp and is known as XS Manchester.

Yeah, they did, but as you mention, at that point it had no proper TV facilities in it and was just being used a blank space. Thanks for digging that out, it's the Question of Sport logo that makes it, I think.



They have occasionally done it from the main MOTD set, when the other set is in use for some other sport on a Sunday, but they presumably don't use it from there all the time because I'm assuming the big studio costs more to run, and also it's not really the most convenient set-up for a debate - when they have done it from there everyone's had to awkwardly fit around both sides of the table, as opposed to everyone fitting alongside the desk, and they do a lot of reading from papers and emails as well where a desk is a great help.

Doesn't the main MOTD show come from HQ3 in the (non BBC run) Dock 10 studio block, while 'smaller' BBC sports programmes are from the little pres studio on the ground floor in Quay House, behind the BBC Sports-News set ? The former studio the BBC hire (and is presumably used by other clients, and as you say probably expensive), the latter is the Beeb's 'own' facility ?

I'm not 100% on this, but doesn't HQ3 share a gallery with another studio floor, which might also limit its availability?

Well, indeed - and I know they did an unscheduled MOTD from the pres studio once because they were filming a Mr Tumble show in the usual studio. It's true to say MOTD2 Extra is between the two "normal" MOTDs but we don't know how the studio arrangements work, and it's also clearly a very low budget programme.

Yes, the Match Of The Day studio is also Justin's House.